If you build a solid nest at home, it’s a pretty good jumping-off point for building community nests far and wide. At least that’s how it’s played out for the innovator behind DigitalNEST, the organization seeking to establish Silicon Valley equity for underserved Latinx communities across the Bay Area.
Recovery & Reopening
Posted inBusiness & Technology
Trump signs sweeping coronavirus relief measure after bipartisan appeals
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
Posted inK-12 Education
California school districts, charter schools to get $6.8 billion, in varying amounts, of federal aid
Title I funding formula will determine big differences in federal aid. In Santa Cruz County, for instance, Pajaro Valley Unified will get nearly double per student what Santa Cruz City Schools gets.
Posted inEnvironment
Months after devastation, CZU Lightning Complex fire finally declared over
Writer, biologist, and philosopher Wallace J. Nichols was living a charmed life until the pandemic took away his…
Posted inBusiness & Technology
What to do when ‘The Blue Mind’ is turned to gray by 2020?
Writer, biologist, and philosopher Wallace J. Nichols was living a charmed life until the pandemic took away his livelihood and the fires his family’s home up the ‘Slow Coast’ north of Santa Cruz. Rather than run from the pain of it all, Nichols chose to feel it — and of course write it.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Meet Mrs. Mayor: Yvette Brooks hopes to lead Capitola into a more diversity-minded future
Yvette Brooks, 37, is Capitola’s new mayor. And she brings with her a perspective that may help expand the thinking around diversity and inclusiveness in a city that is 60% white.
Posted inHealth & Wellness
21 for ‘21: For Juan Morales-Rocha, bridging the digital divide was personal
Morales-Rocha’s advocacy is credited with helping to kick-start a countywide partnership working to bridge the stubborn “last mile” of Santa Cruz County’s digital divide and extend reliable internet to thousands of families.
Posted inCoast Life
We asked, you answered: Surfers offer safety solutions in response to Lookout stories
A Lookout survey asked surfers their thoughts about problems that are making paddling into Santa Cruz waters increasingly dangerous — and what solutions they think might be viable to explore in 2021.
Posted inBusiness & Technology
The last laugh, for now: DNA’s Comedy Lab succumbs to pandemic
After only a year in business pre-pandemic, Santa Cruz’s most prominent comedy club announces its closure on Christmas Eve.
Posted inLatest News
It will be a rainy Christmas, but mudslide risk low in Santa Cruz Mountains
Moving south over the Bay Area, rain should pick up later in the afternoon Christmas Day and persist early into Saturday. Then another, smaller system will move through.